Tilt, the band featuring Fish alumni Steve Vantsis and Dave Stewart, have released a video for the song “Against the Rain” from the album “Hinterland” featuring Fish’s daughter Tara Nowy reprising her mother’s role from “Kayleigh” all those years ago.
The band have also launched a Pledge Music campaign for a 180g double vinyl edition of “Hinterland”.
As the official press release says…
Glenn Hughes is forced to cancel his UK/European tour today after the co-headliner Living Colour booked a conflicting support slot on Alter Bridge’s European tour. New management for Living Colour knowingly booked them onto the Alter Bridge tour although they were already confirmed for the Glenn Hughes co-headline tour, which had been on sale since April. Alter Bridge and Glenn Hughes have been long-time friends and neither Alter Bridge, their management and agents or even Living Colour’s agent TKO were aware that this was taking place.
Glenn Hughes was planning on touring Europe in support of his upcoming solo album, Resonate. When word got to promoters that Living Colour were no longer planning to perform on the co-headline dates, they were forced to refund all tickets. All ticket holders of Glenn Hughes’ UK/European tour will be offered refunds at the point of purchase and can call the venues for more information.
“I am saddened and disappointed that I will not be able to perform for my UK & European fans as I had originally intended. When I partnered with Living Colour to do this tour, I thought we would be able to make something special happen at these shows. Unfortunately, an undermining manager got involved and in turn ruined what would have been an amazing tour. I can’t wait to get back to the UK and Europe to bring the new songs of Resonate to my fans overseas†explains Glenn Hughes.
This is deep into WTF territory; I can’t think of any other tour that’s collapsed in similar circumstances, even though the usual “factors beyond our control” can cover a multitude of sins.
While it may prove that there’s more to this story that meets the eye, it does look as though there are some deeply scummy people in the world of rock’n'roll management.
Glenn Hughes new album “Resonate” is releases on November 4th.
Another Ten of the Best for a band which have featured a lot on this blog ever since the beginning.
As you should have come to expect by now, this is ten of the best, not the “ten best”, and omits some of most the obvious standards in favour some of the overlooked diamonds in the back catalogue.
A track from Maschine’s second “Naturalis” album, due out on November 18th.
Touchstone announce their new EP “Lights From The Sky”, released on November 28, and available for pre-order now from The Merch Desk.
Starting a new chapter in the band’s story, this will be their first release to feature new vocalist Aggie Figurska and keyboard player Liam Holmes, and its four tracks include both English and Polish language versions of the title track.
And here”s a very brief teaser for the EP
Anyone else think this has the verse of “Gangsters” by The Specials and the chorus of “Unoriginal Sin” by Mostly Autumn?
Two pieces of news from Heather Findlay, one very exciting, the other a ittle disappointng.
To get the bad news out of the way first, the next run of full-band gigs, including the show at Maltby and the four gigs next month in The Netherlands are postponed until next year due to illness. The acoustic shows in support of Touchstone in December and the Christmas gig in York are still going ahead.
To quote Heather herself
Unfortunately, due to doctor’s orders because of illness, I have been advised not to travel and to rest for the next couple of months which means we have to postpone all current plans for the shows beginning this weekend and throughout November. I can only express my sincere apologies to those that will be let down as a result.
All of these shows will be moved to 2017 and all tickets will be either honoured at the rescheduled shows, or fully refunded. This has been a very tough decision to make at this time and although fortunately it is not a hugely drastic or threatening health concern, it is one I have to take seriously to ensure I can continue to reach you in tip top condition!
In far more positive news, Heather has a new album coming out. “I Am Snow” is due for release in late November. It’s a mixture of re-worked songs from across her back catalogue and brand new material, and celebrates the folky, proggy side of her music. It features a cover by Richard Nagy, who did the artwork for Mostly Autumn’s “Glass Shadows”.
Heather describes the album as a “candle-lit, baroque-tinged companion for the winter month’s ahead“. It includes a cover of Fotheringay’s “Winter Winds”, and a “chamber-esque, harp-spangled” version of one song from Ayreon’s prog-opera “The Human Equation”.
Full details will be revealed on Heather’s website over the weekend, and The Merch Desk will be taking pre-orders from November 1st
A song from “Bottled Out Of Eden”, filmed at Bush Hall earlier this year.
Riverside are not only one of the best bands to come out of Poland, but they’re in the vanguard of the modern progressive rock scene, picking up the torch from Porcupine Tree when Steven Wilson put his band on hold and took off in a different direction. The tragic and sudden death of guitarist Piotr GrudziÅ„ski in February put the future of the band in doubt, but band leader Mariusz Duda has since stated their intention to continue as a trio.
Released as a tribute to Piotr GrudziÅ„ski, “Eye of the Soundscape” is something of a departure from the song-focussed rock of Riverside’s recent albums, taking the form of 100 minutes of ambient electronica. It’s actually a compilation, combining material previously released as bonus tracks on earlier albums with a couple of remixes of older songs, and some completely new tracks that were works in progress at the time of Piotr’s untimely death.
It’s not completely instrumental, as there’s an occasional ghostly vocal. Nor is it completely electronic; though not as prominent as on earlier albums there’s still room for some of the late Piotr GrudzieÅ„ distinctive fluid guitar on a few tracks.
The album begins with the icy minimalism of “Sleepwalkers”, the sort of thing that might have caused a lot of excitement had it been made by a fashionable DJ rather than by a bunch of Polish prog-rockers. “Shine”, another new track, has more of a Riverside feel even though loops take prominence over guitars.
The shimmering arpeggios of “Where The River Flows” and the electronic pulse of “Night Sessions part 1″ with its lead synth line and spooky background guitars recall mid-70s Tangerine Dream. “Night Sessions part 2″ even features some evocative mournful sax, and the album ends with eleven minutes of ghostly ambient soundscape of the title track.
It all amounts to very different record from “Shrine of the New Generation Slaves” and “Love. Fear and The Time Machine”, at times referencing Tangerine Dream in the same way as some of their earlier work recalled Porcupine Tree. But it’s always their own take on things, never a derivative pastiche, and there are plenty of reminders that there always was an electronica side to their music. It will be very interesting to see where they go next.
Classic Rock magazine responds to Bob Dylan’s nobel prize for literature with some suggestions for Rock’s Ignoble Laureates.
There is the inevitable Noel Gallagher, who as ever sounds like somebody fed the Bumper Book of Bad Clichés into a random text generator.
“Sitting upside a high chair/The devil’s refugee is gonna be blinded by the light that follows meâ€
But I have to defend the late, great Ronnie James Dio. They quote this line from “Holy Diver” and rather miss the point of what Dio was about.
Ride the tiger/You can see his stripes but you know he’s clean/Oh don’t you see what I mean?
I’ve always seen Dio as the Jon Anderson of metal; he plays with evocative imagery even when they don’t make any literal sense.
And this one from Krokus’ “Down the Drain” is a work of comic genius along with Queen’s classic “Told my girl I gotta forget her/Cost I gotta buy me a new carburettor”
“My mother was a B-girl/My old man was a tramp/Some say they conceived me/On a loading rampâ€
Some of the others are hilarious, though the Great White lyric is too crass to post here. That appalling piece of macho drivel is actually credited to five authors, presumably so each of them could deny all responsibility and blame the others.